Comments on an appropriate approach to Aboriginal art and the issues of art production, art reception and representation with specific reference to Bush Tomato Dreaming by artist Lucy Ngwarai Kunoth.
AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference ; 2009
Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities Symosium ; 2010
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Laurel Evelyn Dyson
Fiona Brady
Daniel Featherstone
Inge Kral
Cat Kutay ... [et al.]
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Developed from papers presented at the 2009 AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference and the 2010 Symposium, Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 4, Special Issue: Inuit Art World, Fall/Winter, 1990/1991, pp. 15-23
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Overview of collecting, research and teaching, and exhibitions in Canada, United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, Germany, etc.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
Analyzes the kinds of art that are deemed acceptable as Aboriginal and discusses the ways the Barkindji people in Wilcannia deal with issues pertaining to the politics of culture, cultural subjectivity and identity.
Traces changes in Western attitudes toward the classification of objects and the subsequent evolution of the terminology used to refer to them.
Chapter 17 from Handbook of Material Culture edited by Chris Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Mike Rowlands and Patricia Spyer.
Humanities Research, vol. 8, no. 1, 2001, pp. 37-50
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Argues that the inclusion of exhibitions and collections came about because of three developments: changes in perceptions about definitions of "art" and"primitive art", and the recognition of art as a commodity.